Top 11 Running Benefits

I went running the other day and felt inspired to share my impression as well as 11 top benefits of running. So here are the advantages of running that I can think of when doing a simple brainstorming. Hope it will inspire you

By running you …

1. get happier and feel great due to the body’s endorphins: Endorphins (“endogenous morphine”) are endogenous opioid peptides (polymers/chains of amino acids similar to protein) that function as neurotransmitters. They are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm, and they resemble the opiates in their abilities to produce analgesia and a feeling of well-being.

2. get healthier and strengthen your body and it’s resistance in general which ultimately means that you live longer and with less days sick.

3. get inspired to quit an unhealthy lifestyle when sensing the wellness arising from taking a trip in the open. The feeling of well being in the days after running for just 45 minutes or an hour definitely doesn’t inspire one to smoke and thereby destroy that great feeling. It’s simply a great substitute for bad habits and an eyeopener helping to take that deep decision: The obligatory vital step to getting rid of addiction or bad habits in general.

4. lower your stress level:Part wise due to the neurotransmitters being released and part wise due to seeing things with new eyes and getting the perfectionistic stressing way of thinking on a distance; one of todays plagues. Today people have more stress than earlier due to several factors:

   1. They move less and mostly work in a seated position.

   2. There are more technical issues to solve since the world has become more technical so every body has to take that as an inevitable obligation when accepting a job. Some claim that technical problems are to blame for 1/3 of all the stress in the world.

   3. Diseases caused by modern food depleted of nutrients and food causing allergies such as refined sugar. Should you be among many of the unfortunate allergy sufferers then an effective allergy cure home remedy exists at an extremely low price. I cured at least the 90 known strong allergies that I used to suffer from for many years. It took me only a few months to obtain that miraculous change in my life.

   4. Lack of faith. Read about 11 causes to lack of faith in the world.

5. increase your concentration and focus which in turn means that you …

6. solve things that earlier seemed confusing. That is because the mind sees things from new angles while running.

7. get calm

8. feel free and detached from other responsibilities if you just let go and focus on the act of running. Its a form of meditation and a teacher of learning to relax and observe without thinking: The big problem of humanity and the cause of all suffering and problems. I believe that trying to solve and control the world by forced thinking leads to more problems. It’s a continuous down-spiralling circle which every body accepts to go with while thinking it will all pass by tinkering; since that is what the “leading” minds of our time tells us on tv in their usual intellectual way.

9. get very creative and actually the big geniuses of the past got their greatest ideas while not forcing their mind but when relaxing their mind, which is what happens when running and observing without forcing the brain to solve tedious problems. My experience is that it is worth while getting out and see the current projects from a birds perspective (not that I have wings) and thus filter away the unnecessary noise. I tend to be more of a perfectionist when staying too long time in the same place and letting the mind circle around the same topics. When I get out and do other things and relax, I also get my head out of the thinking cloud and I easily can focus on what matters and what is less important

10. have an easy, great and giving hobby which requires no big planning or equipment. All you need is a pair of trainers or running shoes if you will, no tires to fix and no mechanical parts to keep in a good condition. It’s the easiest but most beneficial thing in the world.

11. see new things while training and get a variation from say some monotonous office. Noooo….don’t tell me you run in a fitness center. As a warming up for other things I can understand it but running in the nature or street beats everything else, including bicycling.

If you run a lot it is even more important to take a multivitamin and some fish oil tablets since doing extreme sport exhausts the body and requires more nutrients to regenerate itself while simultaneously protecting againsts diseases.

Though running generally strengthens the body and provides healthy longevity, exhausting it without caring enough or giving it space to regenerate itself can cause a boomerang effect in extreme cases.

If exhausted while not being furnished the sufficient amount of vitamins and nutrients the body’s immunity to diseases can get weakened, making it more prone to catch influenza, colds etc. But in general you needn’t worry. What you need is just to apply some common sense and give yourself the resting and proper nutrition you need. By taking some daily super multivitamins and some fish oil tablets you will cover yourself regardless of the food you intake.

 

 Running, general training and walking counteracts the modern disease of still sitting. Equilibrium not exaggeration is the key issue

 

It is likewise important to use good running shoes in order to avoid damaging your joints and spine. I did that many years ago when I was invited to run and just put on some basket boots, well I didn’t really have another pair back then. After that I got a returning pain in one knee and the lower back. When many years later taking up running again the pain reappeared, I went to an acupuncturist. I got 4 treatments and the pain has been gone ever since, despite that just before the treatment I had not been able to run more than 5-10 minutes without getting some strong pain that had forced me to stop running.

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